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Sarah Swanson

@sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social

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Author of Best Little Book of Birds: the Oregon Coast and Best Little Book of Birds: Cascades and Columbia Gorge🦉 she/her #birding #embroidery #oregon

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Sarah Swanson @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social · 12h

Congrats! I thoroughly enjoyed Absolution and look forward to completing my SR collection and reading the new intro. 🐊 🐇

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 18h

Today's the pub day for the trade paperback of the fourth Southern Reach novel, Abaolution. A NYT bestseller and LA Times book prize finalist, Ab is my wildest novel yet. Read more in this NYT interview (free article) www.nytimes.com/2024/10/20/b...

Jeff VanderMeer Writes His Strangest Novel Yet (Published 2024)

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Sarah Swanson @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social · 2d

I couldn’t find his @, thank you!

Sarah Swanson @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social · 2d

I love finding my friends’ books at independent bookstores! I hit the jackpot at Paulina Springs Books in Sisters, OR today.
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@kingfisherjourney.bsky.social
@timberpress.bsky.social

Congrats to my friend Tom Myers on his newly released “Birds of the Pacific Northwest For Kids”! A blue book with a Steller’s Jay on the front sits on a shelf next to a pink book with a trillium on it.

Jeff VanderMeer’s “Absolution” is out in paperback with some wonderful cover art! A black book with a trippy alligator and other distorted shapes.

I strongly recommend my good friend Rebecca’s book, “Flight Paths”, about the fascinating history of the study of bird migration! The cover features a flock of birds against the sky.

Marina Richie’s book “Halcyon Journey” is a wonderful read. The cover features a Belted Kingfisher, the subject of the book.

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Marina Richie @kingfisherjourney.bsky.social · 3d

No kings only kingfishers, kinglets, and kingbirds!
Rally in Bend, Oregon, drew thousands ….
#nokingsday #birders

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Sarah Swanson @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you!

Sarah Swanson @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social · 3d

Barking for our rights! #NoKings

A smallish brown dog growls at encroaching authoritarianism. Behind her, a sign in bold black letters on a blue background reads “RISE UP! SPEAK UP!”

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HLK™ @hlkfotos.com · 3d

Holy shit guys.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 3d

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 5d

HAVE YOU EVER SEEN TWO OYSTERCATCHERS taking a bath in a tidal pool? No, of course not. But now you have!

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Sarah Swanson @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social · 4d

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Sarah Swanson @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks for noticing!!

Sarah Swanson @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you! I think it needs a little more ironing, but I’m really happy with it.

Sarah Swanson @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social · 4d

Remember when I was using all those blue and green threads? There were many great guesses about what bird I was working on, but no one guessed magpie! I was inspired by a Neko Case song that mentions one.
#embroidery #birds

Embroidery of a magpie in shades of blue and green with black and white accents. It is perched on a juniper branch with tiny blue berries. Embroidered words read: Don’t let this fading summer pass you by.

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Sarah Swanson @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social · 5d

Looks like a Cooper’s Hawk! Long head makes it a Coop or sharp-shinned. Big head makes me lean toward Coop.

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Tr Tom @heyteachertom.bsky.social · 7d

Birds of the Pacific Northwest for Kids, out today! @timberpress.bsky.social
#birds #fieldguides #birdsofthepnwforkids

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 7d

Your moment of calm: A white-tailed kite hunting above the Tomales Bay Trail, near Point Reyes Station.

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Bird Alliance of Oregon @birdallianceoregon.bsky.social · 8d

Save the date for 45th annual Wild Arts Festival at Wingspan Event Center in Hillsboro on December 6 & 7!

Just in time for the holidays, you can purchase nature-inspired art, meet some of your favorite authors, and find great items in the Silent Auction.

👉Tickets on sale: www.wildartsfestival.org

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Dexter Patterson aka Wisco Birder @wiscobirder.bsky.social · 11d

Get your copy today! 📖🫶🏾🪶

timberpress.com/titles/dexte...

A joyful collage celebrating Birds of the Great Lakes by Dexter Patterson. The compilation includes photos of readers smiling and holding the green pocket-sized book in various cozy and everyday settings. In the top row, a mother and child pose with their copy while wearing blue caps, a woman reads the book with glasses on, and a photo shows the book beside a whipped-cream-topped iced coffee. The middle rows feature close-up shots of the book’s cover, readers relaxing with it, an open page showing a “Snowy Owl” spread, and a curious basset hound staring at the camera while someone holds the book. The collage also includes images of readers posting about their preorders and sharing excitement online, along with the repeated text “Birds of the Great Lakes” in green lettering. The overall tone is warm, enthusiastic, and community-focused, showing people and pets enjoying the new bird guide across different moments and places.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 15d

Portland... such a hard-scrabble hellscape there's hardly time to look out for wasps and put up signs so everybody can get along... let alone hand draw the wasp amid all the chaos...

CAUTION in all caps on a sign with a hand-drawn illo of a wasp, attached to a piece of wood carefully positioned inside an orange caution cone.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 16d

Your moment of calm this morning, in totally unwartorn Portland. Cedar waxwings lit by the sun, preening on branches.

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Bird Alliance of Oregon @birdallianceoregon.bsky.social · 19d

Big legal victory for the Streaked Horned Lark! A federal judge ruled that the USFWS’s decision to list the bird as “threatened” instead of “endangered” was unlawful. This decision offers new hope that the lark will finally receive the stronger safeguards it urgently needs. bit.ly/StreakedHorn...

Legal Victory Puts Streaked Horned Lark on Path to Greater Endangered Species Protections

In response to a lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity and Bird Alliance of Oregon, a federal judge found that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2022 determination that the streaked horned...

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 22d

With AI, the race to hedge bets, or outright say stupid shit like "we're like the dinosaurs before the asteroid, we need to adapt", is so incredibly dangerous because the stakes are so high across multiple industries and also involve theft, excessive resource usage, etc. 6/?

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22d

Spooky season approaches, so I'm going to repost some of my Halloween comics from years past.

A four panel comic called Happy Halloween From The Birds. In panel 1, a pileated woodpecker has pecked its huge gaping rectangular holes in a pumpkin. In panel 2, a yellow-bellied sapsucker has pecked a face using its standard rows of small holes. In panel 3, a satin bowerbird has carved a pumpkin into a bower and placed its favorite blue candies all around it. In panel 4, a loggerhead shrike has impaled mini pumpkins on a fence's metal spikes and is saying "fight me."

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Sarah Swanson @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social · 22d

How dare it, honestly.

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Sarah Swanson @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social · 23d

It’s maybe my favorite part. (1 of 8 boxes)
It’s not hoarding if there are cute boxes.

Many colors of embroidery thread, wound onto bobbins and organized by color in a plastic box with sections.

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